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Apple Tablet iSlate will have Transformative Effect on Education, Teaching, & Learning…

January 20th, 2010
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Why will the highly anticipated Apple tablet – suspected to be called iSlate – transform the brick and mortar classroom as well as the way teachers interact with students? Will learning be affected? Will learning improve? Will the improvement be worth the investment of time and money required to adopt and adapt to the new technologies with which we will shortly collide?

Those who resist the forthcoming changes will find it difficult to adapt and adopt. Those who embrace the changes will discover new opportunities to engage and learn both individually and collaboratively. Society always merges with its adopted technologies. The coming innovations are reflective of our desire to » More: Apple Tablet iSlate will have Transformative Effect on Education, Teaching, & Learning…

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Apple’s iPhone ecosystem may prove to be the fastest and most disruptive technology the world has ever seen

January 2nd, 2010
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Apple’s iPhone/iTouch/iTunes ecosystem “may prove to be the fastest ramping and most disruptive technology product / service launch the world has ever seen

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Perhaps the most remarkable statement in the report is that the Mobile Internet market will be “at least 2x size of Desktop Internet,” which Morgan Stanley bases on analysis comparing Internet users with mobile subscribers.

Combine these reports with this week’s headlines that Africa has the highest per capita concentration of cell phones (surprise), and we can easily see where education is heading (or at least where it ‘needs’ to head).

The next generation is mobile. Education must be available to this mobile generation. Textbooks will be electronified NOT simply because it’s green and saves trees. It’s about delivery to the mobile masses. KurzweilAI.com announced it’s own e-book breakthrough this past week. It is open source and platform transforming rather than device-centric .

Educators, above all, should be able to think beyond the linear, boxed-in paradigms up which it has rested for decades, and take advantage of the new mobile platforms before us. It seems unfortunate that rather than switch, the behemoth institution would rather fight to retain their hierarchical position that is trending inevitably toward extinction.

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Polar Sea Ice Cap and Snow – Cryosphere Today – iPhone friendly puts data in your hands

December 17th, 2009
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Polar sea ice anomaly
seasonal sea ice
seasonal sea ice trend
via arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu

Before jumping on the ice-melt bandwagon, we should arm ourselves with the facts. This university science center website offers visual data, both historic and current.

The adaptation to the iPhone demonstrates how education is being changed by hand-held devices. Just this past week, a school in the U.K. gave iPhones to every student. Imagine trying to argue and debate with ubiquitous access to data in the palm of our hands.

Of course, critical thinking skills are still needed to sort through the vast array of opinion and conjecture and to skillfully help others release their death grip on old ideas without losing face.

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Whrrl iPhone App for Classroom Use?

October 16th, 2009
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